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She asked, herself scornfully whether she was not as ready as any bread-and-buttery miss of her acquaintance to imagine every man she knew in love with her. Very likely he had meant what he said quite differently, and she oh! humiliation had flown into a passion with him for no reasonable cause.
It's absurd to delight in one's father, so bread-and-buttery, but I can't help it. He's far stronger than I; none of the little weak Italian traits that streak me, like water in thick, syrupy wine. No, he isn't in the least romantic, but he says he was fated to this step, and could no more have resisted than his heart could have refused to beat.
"Oh!" said the baronet, "he accompanies his father." "Then give it up. His future bride is now pinafored and bread-and-buttery. She romps, she cries, she dreams of play and pudding. How can he care for her? He thinks more at his age of old women like me. He will be certain to kick against her, and destroy your plan, believe me, Sir Austin." "Ay? ay? do you think that?" said the baronet.
And when, soon after he departed, Emma Thorny-croft came in, all smiles, wonderings, and congratulations, Miss Bowen was in a mood cheerful enough to look the happy fiancée to the life; besides womanly and tender enough to hang round her friend's neck, testifying her old regard until Master James testified his also, and likewise his general sympathy in the scene, by flying at them both with bread-and-buttery fingers.
Ben paused occasionally to stroke the rusty coat-sleeve with bread-and-buttery fingers to convince himself that "Daddy" had really come, and his father disposed of various inconvenient emotions by eating as if food was unknown in California. Mrs.
Is she fat and fifty and rich, or bread-and-buttery and white-skinned and promising, or twenty and just generally fair to look upon, or twenty-five and piquant and knowing, or some big, red-haired lioness, or some yellow-haired, blue-eyed innocent, with good digestion and premature maternal ways, or " "Rot! She's a woman, I tell you!" "All right. Answer questions now categorically." "Go ahead."
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